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st: RE: literal single quotes
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"Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: literal single quotes
Date
Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:37:06 -0000
This sounds like the urge for setting up a delayed evaluation, on which
my advice is
1. Use \` to insert a literal left quote if the urge is overwhelming.
2. Better, resist the urge. Rewrite your code so that you don't need to
do it.
This came up a few months ago, but I can't find my post. Martin Weiss
will probably remember it.
Nick
[email protected]
Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
Can someone please tell me how to define a local macro that contains
literal single quotes? For example Suppose I want to do something like
local bull "count if `temp' > 0"
where `temp' is to be interpreted literally, not evaluated.
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